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"It's changing the way we do business in law enforcement," Sheriff William Snyder said of Facebook. "It's changing the way this industry gets information out. It's fast. We have control over it. We're able to put our message out."

They put their message out by posting Moriarty's picture on their Facebook page and asking people if they knew his whereabouts. Within 20 minutes, Natalie Carlton posted that she had seen Moriarty living in a van in Sandsprit Park.

"When I saw the picture, I just recognized him and just said, 'I'd seen him at the Sandsprit Park,'" Carlton said.

In an hour, more than a dozen people commented on the picture, leading deputies to the park.

Moriarty was awakened by members of the SWAT team, who took him into custody without incident.

"It's enormously beneficial," Snyder said. "Who knows how long it would have taken us to find him? At the end of the day, I have a finite number of deputies. But we have a huge force multiplier when the community gets involved."

This is the first time the Martin County Sheriff's Office has used Facebook to find a suspect.